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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 4, 2024
Whether you object to genocide or internalize every scrap of Israeli propaganda, there isn’t any way in ordinary English to dispute that each shipment of weapons from the United States to Israel, whether given or sold, violates numerous U.S. laws, including the Foreign Assistance Act, the Arms Export Control Act, the Conventional Arms Transfer
The International Criminal Court’s recent issuance of arrest warrants to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza has stirred up a considerable backlash. Dismissing the charges as “absurd
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 3, 2024
A New York Times article from November 26, 2024, kept showing up on my computer screen, and I kept avoiding it in disgust. Finally, I gave in and read it. It began like this:
“Hummingbirds zooming around the garden from flower to flower and sipping nectar probably don’t appear at first glance to be models for instruments of war.”
Probably? Probably? Beautiful things of wonder that appear out of nowhere and can vanish again at any
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Trumped
Going to Hell in a “Drill, Baby, Drill” Handbasket
Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016.
No, I didn’t fully get it at the time, but I kind of get it now (since, like the rest of us, I’ve lived through it all, including his close loss in 2020). Still, twice? Him? A
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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 2, 2024
As a resident of the most flamboyantly hypocritical and war-crazed nation on Earth, the United States of Armaments, I find it weirdly encouraging when one of the U.S. military’s many vassals and sidekicks goes above and beyond, trying out new forms of abuse that I haven’t encountered here. Of course, I find such actions awful and often horrific — particularly if we’re talking about new forms of surveillance and torture
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 2, 2024
Thousands of civic-minded people have been voluntarily helping out the not-yet-extant pseudo-government agency named after the ruler of not-yet-sunk Venice: the DOGE.
On a convenient webpage they are signing a petition and sending tweets to billionaire efficiency-creator Elon Musk. The petition reads:
To: Elon Musk at the Department of Government Efficiency
Here’s how to improve government efficiency and cut spending: Audit the Pentagon, stop
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Imagine this: at the moment I was writing this introduction, Donald (“grab ’em by the pussy“) Trump
On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews
Ramzy Baroud, a US-Palestinian journalist, media consultant, an author, internationally-syndicated columnist, and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of six books and a contributor to many others; his latest volume , co-edited with Ilan Pappe is “Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out”.
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You wouldn’t know it anymore, but Donald Trump’s grandparents and mother were immigrants, as were two of his wives. And imagine this: if they all had arrived here early in 2025, just as their son or grandson